Poincaré Conjecture May Be Solved 299
Flamerule writes "The New York Times is now reporting that Dr. Grigori (Grisha) Perelman, of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, appears to have solved the famous Poincaré Conjecture, one of the Clay Institute's million-dollar Millennium Prize problems. I first noticed a short blurb about this at the MathWorld homepage last week, but Google searches have revealed almost nothing but the date and times of some of his lectures this month, including a packed session at MIT (photos), in which he reportedly presented material that proves the Conjecture. More specifically, the relevant material comes from a paper ("The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications") from last November, and a follow-up that was just released last month."
Cool. (Score:3, Funny)
Donuts, apples, I'm hungry (Score:2, Funny)
Re:And the answer is... (Score:1, Funny)
I solved this first!! (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Y'know (Score:5, Funny)
You're new here, arent you?
Re:Explanation (Score:4, Funny)
Has Fermat's Last Theorem actually been used in practical applications? I don't think so...
Sequel (Score:2, Funny)
Poincare Conjecture Solved Ages Ago (Score:5, Funny)
Now I Understand... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What's that conjecture again? (Score:2, Funny)
Well why didn't you just say so in the first place. It's so simple when you put it in plain english
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squarepoint (Score:1, Funny)
are you some sort of unamerican antipatriot ?
better change his name to "squarepoint" before this site gets banned...
Re:What about the Dunwoody paper? (Score:5, Funny)
The part of the proof where it says "then a miracle occurs..." is being questioned by numerous mathematicians.
Re:Cool. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'm pretty sure this is a dupe (Score:1, Funny)
My teacher asks me "Whats the difference between the Reimann hypothesis and the poincare conjecture?"
And I go "That's what I say, whats the fucking difference?"
Re:Explanation (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What about the Dunwoody paper? (Score:2, Funny)
I prefer to think of it as
public static void main (String[] args) {
doStuff();
}
Re:Explanation (Score:5, Funny)
> applications there might be of this?
An application would be to make better doughnuts, I suppose.
Re:Donuts, apples, I'm hungry (Score:5, Funny)
Women, right???
Typo... (Score:3, Funny)
It is not "mathematician"
Please make the appropriate corrections.
Proof of Poincare conjecture.... (Score:2, Funny)
(This of course assumes that 3-manifolds are malleable.)
this can't be (Score:3, Funny)
1. When Wolfram and Hart were all killed by the Beast, Wolfram was in the house.
2. Wolfram is human and isn't as smart as the papers say.
3. He stepped up to MCHawking and is now hanging from a tree with a sign pinned to him that reads: WHACK EMCEE.
Re: Now I Understand... (Score:2, Funny)
Perl? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:sigh (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Explanation (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Explanation (Score:3, Funny)
Corollary (the proof made intuitive) (Score:4, Funny)
Conclusion: Perelman's proof is a 3-sphere.
Proof: Apply the Theorem to its proof.